For the past fifteen years, I’ve ended the year with a reread of Jacques Derrida’s Aporias. In 2010, I had borrowed the book from the University of Queensland’s Social Sciences and Humanities library which I haunted like the bookish postgraduate ghoul that I was, particularly the philosophy and Gothic aisle. It was a relatively thin … Continue reading In Contemplation of the Unknowable on New Year’s Eve
Dear Readers, Every year, I look forward to the end of the year. Some of it is mostly to recuperate. I sometimes feel this is an emotionally turbulent time because it’s the appointed time for the weight and stress of the entire year to be dealt with. I slough it off like a skin ready … Continue reading My Two Weeks of Being a Full-Time Novelist Every Year
Dear Readers, The What The Woods Mean manuscript and the cover is nearly ready for publishing but owing to certain circumstances that I’d only become fully aware of lately, I need to postpone the publication. It will still be published, but sometime in 2026. Sorry about this, but it’s definitely necessary for this time. The … Continue reading A(nother) Postponement and Tentative Publication Plans for 2026
Dear Readers, I’m redacting the reason why this blog post exists because I don’t want it to be on my website for posterity. However, I will retain some thoughts I have as an educator who has taught in two countries, across three institutions and for over twenty years and as a person who has been … Continue reading What Even is Pedagogical Value in the Blogosphere? Who Decides?
Here’s an excerpt from the Prologue of Watermyth: She inhaled those tales amidst the tumult of bus interchanges, the sound of 1990s grunge-rock and Malay hair metal booming from tiny cassette shops flanking the central bus station, where exhaust fumes met a medley of aromas from smoky woks and great cauldrons of livid chettinad curries … Continue reading Cantata Chronicles 10/10/2025